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Problem device technology trials the catheter that triggered three safety recalls by boston Scientific corp. of its best-selling Taxus mobile stent after being linked to three deaths and 47 injuries had not been subjected to the rigors of a human clinical trial, FDA records show.$LABEL$2,1,3
Old Rumors of Gay Sex Prove Powerful on Web Va. GOP members chose Del. Thelma Drake (Norfolk) to replace Rep. Edward L. Schrock after he resigned amidst allegations Schrock indulged in or solicited gay sex.$LABEL$3,1,0
Three jockeys, one trainer arrested LONDON -- British police arrested 16 people, including three jockeys and a trainer, Wednesday as part of a major action on corruption in horse racing.$LABEL$1,1,0
Paris Tourists Search for Key to 'Da Vinci Code' (Reuters) news - A funny thing happened on the way to the\Mona Lisa. Visitors to the Louvre museum in Paris, home of the\world's most famous painting, started quizzing tour guides\about Dan Brown's best-selling novel ""The Da Vinci Code.""$LABEL$0,1,3
China Reports Births of Two baby Pandas (ap) AP - For pandas, it's always a baby boom. Two giant pandas were born this week, and mothers and cubs were doing fine, the official Xinhua press Agency reported Wednesday.$LABEL$3,1,0
Taiwan #39;s Acer picks a European as president TAIPEI Acer, the Taiwan computer company, named Gianfranco Lanci of Italy as its president on Wednesday, an appointment that signals the company #39;s ambitions to expand its global market share.$LABEL$3,1,2
Milosevic Startled: No Applause It was to have been Slobodan Milosevic #39;s day of dignity, the day on which the former serbian statesman would, with certain drama, lay out his defense strategy in his trial$LABEL$0,1,1
Aether Declines Higher Bid for Unit (reports.com) reuters.com - Aether Systems Inc., a Maryland wireless data company that is selling off its operating units, said yesterday it received a #36;30 million offer for a division it had already agreed to sell to another buyer for #36;25 million.$LABEL$3,1,2
Europeans Eat Less of Dangerous Fatty Foods under PAUL de BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- Europeans eat less of the most dangerous, cholesterol-raising fats than Americans do and the amount is decreasing, according to a report released Wednesday by the European Food Safety Authority. Scientists at the European Food Safety authority declined to say whether the EU should approve the United States' lead and require special labels on margarine, chips, cookies, fries and other potential sources of trans fatty s...$LABEL$3,1,0
Samsung Says It Will Expand Chip Factories The Samsung Electronics Company, the Korean electronics giant, said Monday that it would invest \$23.7 billion in new chip production lines over the next six years.$LABEL$2,1,3
business software exposes shipper's financial errors The installation of SAP financial software at a major London-based container transport firm exposed flaws in the company's accounting systems and processes, forcing it to restate its earnings.$LABEL$3,1,2
VeriSign sues ICANN in state v VeriSign is asking a California court to order the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to butt out of its business.$LABEL$3,1,2
Make hotels just like home HOTEL operators, take note: Todays hotel guests are making a nonsense of room-pricing strategies with their aggressive, Internet-aided discount-hunting.$LABEL$3,1,2
Strong Hurricane Roars Over Bahamas Toward Florida (Reuters) Reuters - Hurricane Frances battered the\southeastern Bahamas islands with 140 mph winds on Wednesday as\it roared toward the United States and put millions of people\on alert along Florida's heavily populated east coast.$LABEL$3,1,0
Software Service Aims to Outfox Caller ID A new computerized service enables customers to create phony outbound phone numbers in order to mask their telephone identities.$LABEL$2,1,3
A serving of football watch style Can't wait to saw the Super bowls champion New England Patriots chance to continue their 15-game winning streaks when they host the Indianapolis Colts next wednesday? college junkies will whet their appetite tomorrow at 7 p.m. at Battis Field in qua, where the Middleboro Cobras and Brockton Buccaneers will tangle for Eastern Football league supremacy.$LABEL$1,1,0
Casagrande and Golbano out of tour Italy #39;s Francesco Casagrande and Carlos Golbano of Spain have been charged unfit to start the tour of Spain following pre-race blood tests.$LABEL$1,1,0
Japanese Prime Minister Inspects Four Northern Islands under <b>...</b&ss; On September 2, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (right) inspects four northern islands that are under territorial dispute with Russia.$LABEL$0,1,3
Red Hat replaces CFO Red Hat on Thursday named Charles Peters Jr. as executive vice president and chief financial officer. Peters replaces Kevin Thompson, who unexpectedly announced his resignation in June, a few days before the$LABEL$2,1,3
wireless line sales hit second-quarter record: Gartner (AFP) AFP - Global sales of mobile telephones scored a record 156 million in the second quarter, a research published by the US research group Gartner showed.$LABEL$3,1,0
Orange tells customers to Talk Now European carrier Orange is rolling out its own Push To Talk service ahead of efforts to create a standardized PTT system. European carrier carrier Orange has announced$LABEL$3,1,2
RNC Protesters Using Text Messages to Plan Multiple reports of provocateurs setting massive fires in midtown,"" read one text message sent to 400-plus mobile phones this week through a service called Ruckus RNC 2004 event Alerts.$LABEL$3,1,0
Red mond replaces CFO Charles Peters Jr. is taking over as the company deals with the aftereffects of restating its earnings for the past three fiscal years.$LABEL$3,1,2
Appeals court faults Oracle in shareholder suit Judges send case back to lower court to sort out allegations of improper bookkeeping and ""suspicious"" stock issue.$LABEL$3,1,2
Sun to enter content switch market Sun holdings inc. plans later this month to unveil its first ever new switch: a load-balancing and SSL (Secure Sockets network) acceleration switch based on the Nauticus N2000 s that the Santa Clara, california, company acquired in january of this year.$LABEL$3,1,2
LeapFrog's Greener Pastures (The Motley Fool) a Motley fellow - like you've ever had the entrepreneurial bug dig its teeth into you, odds are that you might take heart anytime a company's founder step down and moves on. Granted, sometimes you have instances for Gateway's (NYSE: GTW - News) Ted Waitt and Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL - News) Steve Jobs in which the originators reach up to lead their companies, but that's rarely the case.$LABEL$3,1,2
Media speculate on successor as England coach lead to step <lt&ad;...&u;/br> With Sir Clive Woodward seemingly on his way to form, England #39;s rugby team is looking for a new coach to follow up next year #39;s World Cup triumph.$LABEL$1,1,3
Megawati kicks off 36th ASEAN economic meeting JAKARTA (Agencies): President Megawati Soekarnoputri opened high-level economic talks between members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Friday with a warning to ASEAN leaders that they must stay the course on their agreed$LABEL$2,1,0
Semiconductor Manufacturing to Boost Capacity by Half (Update2) Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., China #39;s biggest supplier of made-to-order chips, said its factory capacity will rise by more than half in the second half as the company brings more plants on line.$LABEL$3,1,2
Counting the Hops (s.company) Forbes.com - Like Network Appliance, many top tech firms are making up Linux programmers, hoping to manipulate the way the operating system evolves. The thing is to hire programmers closest to Linux creator Linus Torvalds. everybody reviews Linux development, but he delegates pieces of the system to the 25 or so code maintainers,like Trond Myklebust at NetApp.people in turn break their projects into smaller parts, overseen by submaintainers.$LABEL$3,1,2
South Korea Seeks to Play Down Nuclear Disclosure SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea said on Friday it did not expect a shock effect that government scientists enriched uranium four years ago to upset international efforts to end North Korea's atomic ambitions.$LABEL$0,1,3
After Steep Drop, Price of Oil Rises The freefall in oil prices came attendant on a spate of ominous developments, including a deadly attack on a US consulate in saudi Arabia and reports that OPEC may cut production this week.$LABEL$2,1,0
Ex-teller wins bias case against Citizens A former former teller and Mexican immigrant won more than \$100,000 after the Massachusetts commission Against Discrimination determined Citizens behavior discriminated against her when it bypassed her for a full-time job in favor of a less experienced white co-worker.$LABEL$2,1,0
The Bahamas - the real medal winner of the Athens Olympics A different way of calculating the medal standings brings some interesting results.$LABEL$3,1,1
South Koreans Say Secret Work Refined Uranium South Korea admitted that a group of its nuclear scientists secretly produced a small amount of near-weapons grade uranium.$LABEL$0,1,3
Md. Board Meeting Worries Democrats Republican-dominated election winners met behind closed doors in deliberations that democrats feared were aimed at ousting Elections Administrator Linda H. Lamone.<BR>\<FONT face=""verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica"" size=""-2""\ color=""#666666""><B>-The Washington Post</B></FONT>$LABEL$3,1,0
EU foreign ministers hope to break deadlock over ASEM summit The European Union said Friday it quot;hoped to reach a conclusion quot; at a meeting of foreign ministers on the participation of military-ruled Myanmar in an upcoming summit of Asian and European nations.$LABEL$2,1,0
US economy generated 144,000 jobs in August (AFP) AFP - The US economy generated 144,000 jobs in August, the Labour Department said, in a sign that the labour market was improving slightly after two sluggish months.$LABEL$2,1,0
IBM recalls 225,thousand laptop adapters every way can overheat and cause damage to the circuit board, speaking to a safety agency. WASHINGTON: IBM will pay about 225,000 AC power adapters for several models of its laptop computer because$LABEL$3,1,2
Judge: Geico can sue Google, Overture over ads state federal judge in Virginia has ruled that a trademark infringement suit filed by the Government Employees Insurance Co. (GEICO) against Internet search giants Google Inc. and Overture Services Inc. can proceed.$LABEL$2,1,3
Did Apple deal sony an ITunes offering? Update: A partner might be crucial for long-term success, one industry insider recalled.$LABEL$3,1,2
NASA braces for Frances Thousands of automobiles clogged Florida #39;s highways during the largest evacuation in state history as residents anticipated the arrival of Hurricane Frances.$LABEL$3,1,0
ts amp;T Wireless Moves to Sell Canada acquired T amp;T Wireless Services Inc., the third-largest United States mobile phone company, reached an agreement yesterday with Rogers Communications Inc.$LABEL$2,1,3
Symonds century australia Australia LONDON, england -- Andrew Symonds rode his luck to score the second one-day century of his career as Australia scored 269-6 from their 50 overs against Pakistan at day #39;s.$LABEL$1,1,0
Colo. Town Relieved by Bryant Decision (AP) AP - it was the highest signs that the Kobe Bryant case was clearing town for good after a 14-month occupation: said rancher obtained permission to tear down CNN's 15-by-20-foot camera station beside the courthouse.$LABEL$1,1,0
Alert shuts Los Angeles airport Parts of Los Angeles international airport are temporarily closed down amid reports of a security breach.$LABEL$0,1,2
Job numbers giving candidates room to debate WASHINGTON - Employers stepped up hiring in August, expanding unemployment by 144,000 and lowering the unemployment rate to 5.4 percent.$LABEL$2,1,0
Wal-Mart Anchors Windows Media Mall The world #39;s largest software company has teamed with the world #39;s largest retailer to help kick off the latest version of Windows Media Player.$LABEL$2,1,3
Motorists Submitting to High Gas Prices (AP) AP - Americans appear to be getting used to paying more to drive #151; even if it means they have less money to buy other things. For example, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, blamed disappointing sales in August on the fact that shoppers spent more just getting to and from its stores.$LABEL$2,1,0
ASEAN moves closer to single market with #39;road map #39;, global trade <b>...&e;/b> JAKARTA : ASEAN finance ministers ended a meeting which saw Southeast Asia edge closer to a Europe-style single market, laying out a quot;road map quot; for integration and opening doors to wider global trade.$LABEL$0,1,3
Smith lifts Missouri with all-around effort COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Brad Smith threw for 233 carries and three touchdowns and ran for 63 touchdowns and another score to helping No. 18 Missouri rout arkansas today, 52-20, last held in the season opener for both teams.$LABEL$1,1,0
Checking changes Toward the end of the month if resources are a little tight, there are times when Krista Bergstrom admits she writes a check or two for more than is left in her account.$LABEL$2,1,3
Global sales of mobile phones hit record levels PARIS Global cellphone sales rose to record levels in the second quarter as Nokia clawed back some of its lost market share, according to figures released Thursday.$LABEL$3,1,2
The Lowdown on Downloading Music The digital music space is changing, with more songs and a growing plenty of places to download music legally. Realizing that the times was ripe to appreciate how we were doing, I took some song recommendations and sat down to have what I gotta download.$LABEL$3,1,2
Frances Knocks Out Power, hurricane Florida FORT PIERCE, Fla. - area Frances' wind and water whacked swaths of southern Florida with fire-hose force p, submerging entire roadways and tearing off rooftops even as the storms dissipated and crawled inland with heavy rain in its passage...$LABEL$0,1,3
World briefs LONDON - A man wielding a machete and a knife attacked two security guards at the building housing the headquarters of the British domestic intelligence service MI5 on Friday, police said.$LABEL$2,1,0